The One with the Third Wheel: Friends Fanfic

The "Break"

Rachel burst into the apartment and started packing her things up, she was tired of Ross cheating on her. She wasn't going to deal with him, even after they got married. Ross burst in after her, Joey ran after him and disappeared into the kitchen to look for something to eat and to overhear what they were saying. He was hungry after all. 

"Rachel, please stop what are you doing? I'm sorry, I was stressed and–" Rachel was furious, she threw her bag and looked at Ross in a very confused and tiresome look. "Oh so now your the one that's stressed? Your the one that's taking care of Emma? Your the one that's waking up in the middle of the night to soothe her when she's crying? Ross I just don't get you. This isn't the first time you know, that first time I gave you an easy time. It's not fair, it's not fair for me and Emma!" She placed her hands on her face and sobbed. Ross sat next to her and cried out, "We were on a break!" Rachel looked up, her mouth in the shape of an O. "Your being foolish. Joey dates many woman and he's still loyal at the end of the day!" Joey peered out the kitchen with a tub of icecream and said as if he was hurt, "Hey! Joey has feelings too!" Rachel spun around and said, "Go back to eating!" Rachel sat down and looked straight forward. Her eyes looked lost and blank, her mind was running 100 miles per hour. Ross sat next to her, "I'm sorry, I'm just not used to being married." Joey walked out the kitchen, cleaned his icecream covered mouth with his sleeve and said, "Phoebe had the same problem when th marriage too. She said she wasn't meant to be married or something." They all plopped down and said all at he same time, "How do Chandler and Monica do it?" Ross grabbed the icecream tub and pouted, "How are they so perfect?" Rachel grabbed the icecream tub and said, "How do they maintain such a stable marriage?" Joey shrugged and switched the TV on and said, "I don't know, you should ask them for advice. All the ladies I say I'm not marriage material or something." 

Rachel turned to Joey and frowned. "What did you say about Phoebe?" 

"Oh, she told me that she wasn't sure about her marriage with Mike. I really don't want them to break up. But then I also want them to break up." This wasn't Joey, Joey wasn't like that. Ross patted him on the back and said, "That's not really something you would do. Maybe we can talk to her and help her convince her that Mike is good for her." Rachel and Joey nodded. They headed down the coffe shop, they haven't been there in a long time. To their surprise, Chandler, Monica and Phoebe were sitting at their usual spots. It seemed as if Phoebe was crying, and the married couple was trying to comfort her. The trio ran in to see what all the commotion was all about.